Children, Families, Communities

We offer workshops and classes on many themes, and can customize our trainings for your family or organization.

All of our trainings explore personal and professional growth on multiple levels, and include how to insert conscious choice into habitual patterns.

Each year on the second weekend in December we offer a two-day workshop on the theme of Grace. We began this tradition in 2002 and it is now part of a week-long event. The workshop is preceded by shorter classes and Presence in Healing sessions, providing the opportunity for people to create their own intensive experience if they so desire.

In 2017 we held our first Summer Grace retreat and this has also become an annual event.

Upcoming and Ongoing Events

Weaving Our Wholeness

A Virtual and In Person Presence in Healing event, Southwest Harbor, Maine

August 10-15, 2026

Classes

Listening Circle with Ellen Pierce Graves

Monday, August 10, via Zoom, 6:00-8:00ET
The present moment holds the leading edge of healing. A listening circle is an opportunity to drop into the multilayered present moment and speak from there, listen deeply to others in community, and share reflections and impact (as opposed to problem solving or advice).

In this practice we:

Lean in to trusting that loving witness itself heals.
Lean into speaking when moved.
Lean into not having to make sense.
Lean into welcoming any emotions that arise and holding them for healing together.
Lean into circle as the structure.

We open our circle as a mysterious liminal space that is beyond our logical understanding. Where we may take a stand for something previously unseen heard or unspoken in community and allow healing to occur through our care, presence and awareness.

Fee: $45/ $40.50 for CFC members

Tarot Round Robin with Christina Heiniger and The Lotus Crew

Tuesday, August 11, 6:00-7:30 ET, a Zoom class
We will weave a supportive energetic group template for us all this Summer Grace using the Tarot and guidance from Archangel Uriel and The Lotus Crew. Bring a Tarot or Oracle card deck, if you have one. (This is strongly preferred, so this is a good time to get yourself a Tarot deck if you donâ€™t already own one.)

Fee: $35, $31.50 for CFC members

Weaving Our Wholeness with Sara Pierce and Faith Perkins

Thursday - Saturday, August 13-15
An in-person, non-residential retreat at Acadia Yurts in Southwest Harbor

Our summer retreat is always a conversation. The title this year - Weaving Our Wholeness - is big, and yet we long to embody all aspects of ourselves. We are made of parts yet make a whole. Join us as we explore the threads of our lives and weave them into the practical.

Thursday, August 13 6:30-8:30 p.m. Opening circle
Friday, August 14, Presence in Healing class 9-12; multihands sessions in the afternoon
Saturday, August 15, Presence in Healing class 9-12; pot-luck in the evening

Fee: $195/$175.50 for CFC members

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

Please email yourcfcommunity@gmail.com if you need financial support to attend a class.

Other Classes and Workshops We Have Offered

Awakening Grace: Living What Is
Grace, Simplicity and Light
Navigating This New Earth
In the Presence of Grace

Introduction to Presence in Healing
A Conversation Within
Nervous System 2.0: Recalibrating Your Movements

Stress and Your Immune System
ADD and State Regulation
Presence: Bringing Mindfulness to Massage (CEUs offered)

Staying True to Ourselves

How do we walk our path during this time of constant change? Even when we have a clear sense of who we are the world keeps changing, creating doubt as to our next steps.

Our beliefs, actions and habits help define who we are as we learn how to be present with ourselves. Each time we interact with the world we integrate new information and have the opportunity to update our perspective.

Choosing Life Path

What am I supposed to do? What should I do next? What are my gifts? How can I best use them? The need for recognizing life purpose is one of the deepest drivers of well-being. And yet understanding and refining our actions to fulfill this purpose can feel elusive.

Choosing our every-day expression is guided by our emotions in an incredibly wide open, abundant and diverse environment that is our World. By learning how to use our body's guidance system to steer our actions, we create our life purpose.

Training

Fees for events and classes are listed with the event and scholarships are often available.